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Gedit plugin: Multi-edit released

One of the main things that almost prevented me from switching to Linux was the lack of a text editor like TextMate or E-TextEditor. After all, it would be the program I’d use the most. But luckily Gedit has turned out to be almost up to the job, aside from a lack of multi-edit support!

So for the last few weeks I’ve been working on a Gedit plugin that allows you to edit multiple parts of a document, simultaneously. Ala Multi-edit! You can check it out at:

jon-walsh.com/journal/multi-edit/

The hardest part was not being able to use Gedit while creating it…

:D

Posted on the 19th February 2009 at 11:36pm
In the category: Multi-edit
This post was written by a mere human so errors are definitely possible, please let me know if you find any! :)
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6 Responses to “Gedit plugin: Multi-edit released”

  1. Jesse: (20 Feb 2009, 1:28am)

    Very nice! I just tested it a bit and it seems to be working fairly well. I wanted to implement something like this, but focussing on column edit instead of multiedit. It would be very cool if you could implemented column editing also. What I mean is selecting a piece of text, and inserting edit markers in the column of selection for each selected line.

    Some other remarks:
    1) The way the marks are rendered (with mark-visible) is not very clear I think, there might be a better way to present them visually
    2) Using Ctrl+Space to insert marks is not very friendly to existing plugins like snippets because it disables snippet completion
    3) Would be very cool if the automatic iterator thing like the numbers could be scripted for more complex things

    Other than that, great work! I would like to see this go into gedit-plugins.

  2. Jon: (20 Feb 2009, 1:48am)

    Hi, thanks for the feedback!

    I haven’t used snippets yet so my presumption that no one would be using the spacebar was wrong! :P

    I’ll be sure to look into that and thanks for the other tips as well
    : )

  3. Jon: (20 Feb 2009, 4:05am)

    0.9.1 update
    - Ctrl+Space is now Ctrl+` (until I make it configurable)
    - Ctrl+*arrow* has been fixed

  4. Mike Crittenden: (10 Mar 2010, 1:13pm)

    Just wanted to let you know that your plugin has done a LOT for my productivity. I use it all the time and I would feel completely crippled if I had to go without it.

    Anyways, just wanted to give a huge thanks and beg you to please please please keep up with it and not let it die as Gedit progresses.

  5. Ullasa Kodandaramaiah: (7 Apr 2010, 6:29am)

    This is simply awesome! Has helped me a lot. Thank you for this!

  6. Tom Oldbury: (12 Apr 2010, 10:29pm)

    Love this plugin! Great work, use it all the time. :)

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